Re: how to stop transmitting ip address and harddrive contents

From: Eye of the Storm (noemail@noemail.net)
Date: 11/30/02 

From: Eye of the Storm <noemail@noemail.net>
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 17:17:11 -0600

On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 02:08:03 GMT, "Duane Arnold"
<darnold92@Insightbb.com> wrote:

>Well, I don't know what to tell you. Because I have gone to a couple of
>these sites that supposedly show you the content of your <C> and not once
>has it been shown to me.
>
>1) Put IE back into its default state.
>2) put machine into the DMZ on the router
>3) connected machine without router to the Internet
>
>I went to these sites with BlackIce and nothing. I even looked at the script
>and RESPONSE.WRITE that had file://c:/ in it. Everything about the page
>displayed except for the content of the <C> being shown to me. So, I don't
>know what else can be stopping it, other then BlackIce.

I'd like to find out what in BlackICE is stopping that. One of the
sites that uses the trick to get business was actually associated with
Network ICE and it was pointed out at the time that BlackICE would do
nothing to stop a simple script.

Maybe they added something to a later release. I am using BlackICE
Server Protection v3.5.cdf

>And yes, I view that as a security issue. I see it as an issue anytime from
>across the Internet a machine can be asked to do something like that and it
>does it. No matter how trivial it may be. The machine was ask to do
>something and it did.

I suspect that your machine allows Internet Explorer to do lots of
things when an outside source tells it to. Otherwise you wouldn't do
much surfing.

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